There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

Investing in your personal development requires time, energy, and money, but the investment provides a great return.

I have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.